one and twenty days /: but lo, Michael \| one of the ief Princes came to help me 2, and I remained there ch the Kings of Perſia. '. 1 I F This place hath ſome Difficulty, therefore variouſly expounded. me expound it of Earthly Princes,ſome of Angels, and among them e will have good Angels meant, who they ſay have the Patronage ' the Kingdoms-and Provinces of the Earth ; but who can imagine at good Angels ſhould quarrel one with the other ? Therefore ſay hers, they are bad Angels that oppoſe the People of God, and their liverance, ſeeking rather their Ruine, as Michaet and the Devil ove, ev, 12. 7. now ſometimes God permits Satan to:do much Way. But I judge þy the Prince of Perſez is meant Cambyſes who | 5s an Enemy tothe Fews, and hindred the building of the Temple. ow he coutt not” properly retift the Angel, bur figuratively he did. gels Power is not unlimited, but bounded by © eommiſſton and TIn- 10ns from” God. Therefore God ſuffered the wicked Counſels of byſes to take place a while ; but Damel by his Prayers,and the An- LDy his Power: oyercame him at haft : And this very thing laid a undation of the Perfian Monarchy's Ruine, ver. 20. and-doubtleſs King wasſtirced-pp to his evil Machinations agaigft the People ood, by the, Prince of the Powers. of Darknels, that ruleth ja the dren of Diſobedience, Epheſ. 2. 2. m This we take to be Chriſt, 115 Name itgnifies, Who u like Ged, 2. He's the firſt int Dignity *© all th? Angels, #eb. 1.4, 5,6, 7, &c. called Archangel, and the MIcres Prince, ver. 21, 3+ The chict Champion of his Charch, this: Gavricl, not as his Fellow, but: as his General. Thus we ſee "rCae God takes of his Church's Safety againſt their. potent Ene- by vouvling their Succours, ( when he could do is it he pleaſed "© Means } thereby to conliwt, his own Glory in the World by | -_, the Counſels, and breaking- the Powers of the mightic!t "15, Wer he had given them Rope todo their worlt, 1.4 Now | am come to make thee' underſtand what ſhall {4 Wy people in the latter days # : far yet the viiion
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|, 16. And behold, oxelike the ſimilitude of the Sons p of Men teuched my lips - then 1 opened my mouth q, and ſpake, and ſaid unto him that ſtood before me, O my lord, by the viſion my ſorrows were'turned upon ine, and I have retained no ſtrength r. G WS , Þ An Angel in the ſhape of a Man, and no other but Jeſus Chriſt as before; he that had humbled him,now helped and encouraged bim. q Which cannot be till the Lord couch our Lips ſal. 51. 15. Jſa. 6, $, 6, 7. Fer, 1.9. 7 Tho the Angel appeared to. him, and ſpake to
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' 19 And ſaid, * O Man greatly beloved, fear not , * Ver. 11, peace be unto thee, be ſtrong, yea, be ſtrong x. And